RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Minimized GUI windows fall asleep

[Peter E. <Pet...@at...>]

Well, I'd believe the memory problem before anything else. This particular
script is quite hungry and eats up a whopping 22MB+. Heck, that's even more
than Outlook! Thanks for the food for thought.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piske, Harald [mailto:Har...@bo...]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:32 PM
> To: 'per...@li...'
> Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Minimized GUI windows fall asleep
> 
> 
> Never had that at all, and I love to keep my taskbar stuffed 
> with around 15
> open apps, 10 of which are min'd while I deal with 3 of the 
> other 5. Even on
> mon mornings, after around 64 hrs of win-dozing, they come up 
> normally ...
> that is, as painfully slow as is usual for this OS ;-)
> 
> There must be something in your water. Does it only affect 
> your Win32::GUI
> wins? Then you should check their ... erm ... sleep cycle by 
> i.e. having a
> timer sub that changes the caption. That way, you can see right in the
> taskbar button of your app, if it still breathes.
> 
> One other suspicion: you're short of RAM and have something 
> running with a
> memory leak. I have an app with no leak, but reeeeeeally 
> memory hungry. Once
> that thing is up, it surges all available real memory and 
> when I reactivate
> one of the other windows, it takes like until next tuesday 
> before they have
> swapped themselves out of virtual and into real memory. One 
> other prog, that
> does have a leak, slowly gobbles all RAM until everything 
> else stalls. If,
> at that point, I close it, it looks frozen, but actually 
> needs about 20%
> *more* RAM to shut down - I suspect a side effect of the 
> garbage collection,
> trying to free the leaked resources and having to build a 
> hash or something
> like that. After a couple of minutes, it really closes and 
> everything is
> back to normal.
> 
> If on NT or 2k, keep the task manager open and watch, which 
> app or process
> burns the CPU power and RAM. If on 9x, the task scheduler 
> worx differently
> there and you can have one malfunctioning app freezing all 
> others, given a
> few conditions.
> 
> One last idea: when did you last check for viruses?
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Peter Eisengrein [mailto:Pet...@at...]
> | Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:30
> | To: Perl GUI Mail list (E-mail)
> | Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Minimized GUI windows fall asleep
> | 
> | 
> | Anyone had a problem with a Window that "falls asleep" if 
> it has been
> | minimized for a while. I have this problem and it takes quite 
> | a while (> 10
> | minutes sometimes) for the system to return it when it is 
> | restored. This is
> | especially prevalent in Win98 but have also seen it on NT4.0.
> | 
> | Is there a fix other than "don't minimize the window"?
> | 
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